Thursday, April 23, 2009

Death of a JDub Saleman

"This documentary short tells the story of the day to day struggle of being a modern day door to door salesman. Documentarian/Sephardic Rock Icon Daniel Saks followed around a young man named Adam as he walked the streets of Brooklyn pulling a suitcase full of Jewish music behind him, trying ever so hard to make that elusive sale."

About Teruah-JewishMusic

I'm a Conservative Jew living in a Christian farm town in Michigan, USA. For me, Jewish music used to be Adon Olam, Hava Nagila, and Fiddler on the Roof. I started getting a clue a few years ago. Jewish music is Klezmer dances, Sephardic ballads and Chassidic niggun. It's thousand year old hymns, three hundred year old Shabbat table songs and 60 year old partisan resistance songs. It's contemporary hip-hop, punk rock, electronica, jazz, and chamber music. In addition to loving its musical and spiritual qualities, Jewish music helps me connect my family with a much broader and diverse Jewish culture than is available locally. The Teruah blog helps me document my exploration and share it with others. Why the name Teruah? Teruah is a call on the shofar on Rosh Hashanna.